Dr Dan Bernie

Areas of expertise

• Climate resilience and risk
• UK climate change
• Climate change and health
• Interdisciplinary research
• Climate change mitigation

Publications by Dan Bernie

Current activities

Dan co-manages the Met Office’s Climate Resilience team, developing tools and approaches to assess different aspects of climate change risk. These are then applied to inform adaptation decision making for a wide range of sectors and stakeholders. He currently leads part of the Horizon Europe ASPECT project on developing new user case studies for seamless climate predictions, working with the pensions sector and British Red Cross. He also leads part of the Horizon Europe COMPASS project which is working toward an attribution approach for compound hazards. Other projects Dan leads include consultancy work for the finance and defence sectors.

Dan is the Met Office lead for health science and a member of the Climate Change adaptation sub-group of UKHSA's Environmental Public Health Programme Board. Outside of the Met Office Dan has a faculty position at the University of Bristol where he is Associate Professor in the Medical school.

 

Career background

Dan joined the Met Office in 2007 to work on tropical climate variability and climate model development before working in central Government as a science adviser. On returning to the Met Office Dan worked extensively on Climate Change mitigation, including managing of the Hadley Centre's Mitigation Advice team and leading parts of a number of EU projects including HELIX, AMPERE, ICE2SEA and CRESCENDO. He has also lead consultancy work for OECD, EDF and the Committee on Climate Change.

Prior to his career with UK government, Dan worked for the CNRS at IPSL in Paris and obtained a PhD in meteorology from the University of Reading.